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  2. Sand Creek massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry [5] under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a ...

  3. Cheyenne military societies - Wikipedia

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    Among the Northern Cheyenne, the Wolf Warriors gradually adopted the name Crazy Dogs (Hotamémâsêhao'o). Both groups - the Wolf Warriors Society (Southern Cheyenne) and the Crazy Dogs (Northern Cheyenne) - considered themselves constituents of the same organization originally called Bowstring Men. In the Northern Cheyenne tribe, both the ...

  4. Yellow Wolf (Cheyenne) - Wikipedia

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    Yellow Wolf or Ho'néoxheóvaestse (died 1864) [1] was a Cheyenne Chief who led the Rope Hair group of the Southern Cheyenne. [2] He lived to be 85 years old, and died in 1864 along with his brother at Sand Creek, Colorado, at the Sand Creek Massacre , which disrupted the traditional Cheyenne power structure, because of the deaths of eight ...

  5. Chief Niwot - Wikipedia

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    Chief Niwot (Arapaho: Nowoo3 [nɔ'wɔːθ]) or Left Hand(-ed) (c. 1825–1864) was a Southern Arapaho chief, diplomat, and interpreter who negotiated for peace between white settlers and the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and Colorado War.

  6. Timeline of United States military operations - Wikipedia

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    1863: Japan: July 16, Battle of ... Cheyenne, and Arapaho Native ... 1967, by the Israel Defense Forces, killing 34 and wounding more than 170 U.S. crew members. ...

  7. Buffalo Soldier - Wikipedia

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    Buffalo Soldier sites from 1860–1900 Image taken in 1898 of the 9th U.S. Cavalry.. Sources disagree on how the nickname "Buffalo Soldiers" began. According to the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum the name originated with the Cheyenne warriors in the winter of 1877, the actual Cheyenne translation being "Wild Buffalo".

  8. Northern Cheyenne Exodus - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Cheyenne Exodus, also known as Dull Knife's Raid, [3] the Cheyenne War, [4] or the Cheyenne Campaign, [5] was the attempt of the Northern Cheyenne to return to the north, after being placed on the Southern Cheyenne reservation in the Indian Territory, and the United States Army operations to stop them. The period lasted from 1878 ...

  9. Cheyenne - Wikipedia

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    The Cheyenne (/ ʃ aɪ ˈ æ n / ⓘ shy-AN) are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains.The Cheyenne comprise two Native American tribes, the Só'taeo'o or Só'taétaneo'o (more commonly spelled as Suhtai or Sutaio) and the Tsétsėhéstȧhese (also spelled Tsitsistas, [t͡sɪt͡shɪstʰɑs] [3]); the tribes merged in the early 19th century.